Sometimes you run across something in campaign finance reports that makes you sit up and take notice. Sometimes. Something like an individual with a history in Missouri politics with a committee that has a chunk of change. Except this individual isn’t running for office. Or is she?
She is spreading some wealth, republican style (from the Missouri Ethics Commission):
Detailed Summary of Committee Disclosure Report
Committe[e]: FRIENDS OF VICKY HARTZLER25. MONEY ON HAND AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS REPORTING PERIOD (INCLUDING FUNDS IN DEPOSITORY, CASH, SAVINGS ACCOUNTS AND ALL OTHER INVESTMENTS) $24,082.34
28. MONEY ON HAND AT THE CLOSE OF THIS REPORTING PERIOD (SUM 25 + 26 – 27) $22,649.34
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Detailed Summary of Expenditures And Contributions Made
Committe: FRIENDS OF VICKY HARTZLER
ReportDate: 4/7/2008Friends of Chris Molendorp Raymore, Mo. 10/08/2007 $100.00
Turk for Congress Lee’s Summit, MO 12/31/2007 $100.00
Citizens for Brian Baker Belton, MO 02/09/2008 $100.00
Friends of Bob Huston Harrisonville, MO 02/09/2008 $100.00
Danie Moore for Congress Columbia, MO 03/13/2008 $250.00
Hulshof for Governor Columbia, MO 03/27/2008 $250.00
Ah, someone’s placed her bets.
Vicki Hartzler was a republican in the Missouri House, representing the 124th Legislative District from 1995 to 2001 (the seat currently held by Democrat Luke Scavuzzo). Her committee, the Friends of Vicky Hartzler, was formed in 1999:
Date Established:1/6/1999
MECID:C001197
FRIENDS OF VICKY HARTZLEROFFICE SOUGHT: STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 124 –
Date of Election: 8/3/2010
Political Party: REPUBLICAN
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What has Vicky Hartzler been up to (other than handing out campaign contributions to other republicans) since her days in the Missouri General Assembly?:
Sharp Reactions to Missouri’s Decisive Vote Against Gay Marriage
By MONICA DAVEY
The New York Times
Published: August 5, 2004…Few had anticipated the scale of the turnout either. In state records kept since 1980, there had never been comparable participation in an August primary. Nearly 1.5 million people voted, a fact that Vicky Hartzler, spokeswoman for the Coalition to Protect Marriage in Missouri, attributed to grass-roots efforts, including notes in church bulletins, neighbors holding up signs along busy thoroughfares and preachers talking to their congregations.
“Even though we were outspent and we had a national political machine descend on our state to try and defeat this,” Ms. Hartzler said, “people got out and worked and called neighbors and said a lot of prayers.”
On Friday, leaders of Missouri’s anti-gay-marriage effort will offer advice in a conference call to those pushing for amendments in other states, she said.
Her own best advice to the other states, Ms. Hartzler said, would not be about politics. “The No. 1 thing is prayer,” she said, “and a passion for protecting the sanctity of marriage…”
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You would think that this means that divorced politicians are out of luck when it comes to an endorsement from Vicky Hartzler.
Sometimes you place a bet and the duck you bet on goes lame. Sometimes.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 9, 2005
Contact: Jessica RobinsonBlunt Appoints Hartzler to Missouri Women’s Council
HARRISONVILLE – Gov. Matt Blunt announced the appointment of Vicky J. Hartzler as chairwoman of the Missouri Women’s Council.
Hartzler, 44 of Harrisonville, is co-owner of Hartzler Equipment Company and Hartzler Farms, Inc. Hartzler holds a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Missouri- Columbia and a master’s in education from Central Missouri State University. Hartzler represented the 124th House District from 1995 through 2001.
The Missouri Women’s Council was established in 1985 by the State’s 83rd General Assembly to identify and address issues affecting the economic and employment status of women in Missouri. The Council is comprised of 15 members, of which 11 are appointed by the governor.
Hartzler’s appointment is subject to Senate confirmation for a term ending on Dec. 6, 2007. She replaces Kimberly Carlos who resigned.
Say what?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Contact: Jessica Robinson
Nixon Fails to Represent Missouri on Traditional MarriageNixon Silent as California Ballot Initiative on Same-Sex Marriage is Certified
JEFFERSON CITY – Attorney General Jay Nixon is failing to represent Missouri by failing to support an effort to allow the people, not the courts to decide if marriage is between one man and one woman even after the California Secretary of State approved a ballot initiative to allow the people, not the courts to decide on the definition of marriage. Gov. Blunt today again called on Nixon to immediately join other attorneys general from across the country and stand up for traditional marriage…
No degrees of separation. Same tune, same political party, different piper.
Sometimes when you follow a story you come full circle. Sometimes…
Attorney General Jay Nixon writes a letter to the California Supreme Court (pdf via the Springfield News-Leader):
Loving v. Virginia (No. 395)
206 Va. 924, 147 S.E.2d 78, reversed. – is an interesting read.